On Saturday 2008-11-08 15:27, Reimar D?ffinger wrote: >On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 03:08:17PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> MPlayer does not seem to currently support playing back streamdumps of >> HQ Youtube videos that have an AAC audio stream. Is this known not to >> work, or any work in progress to get it fixed? > >When you say "fixed" do you mean to imply this is a bug? Because then >you'd have to explain why you think so. > >The man page says: >> -dumpaudio (MPlayer only) >> Dumps raw compressed audio stream to ./stream.dump (useful with MPEG/AC-3, in most other >> cases the resulting file will not be playable). > >Where "not playable" does really mean "No way _anything_ can play that. >Really. Impossible." So dumpaudio may not be what I am looking for. What is the preferred way of dumping the audio to a playable file, while keeping the encoding?